wildcat strike

Example Sentences

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The dissent this week is reminding some labor observers of a wildcat strike that occurred a few years ago at U.C.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2022

I was not a member of any NY union, so there was a wildcat strike.

From The Guardian • Aug. 19, 2020

I don’t think they met secretly with the wildcatters, and they may have had some differences, but I don’t think that the official union was too unhappy with the membership for that wildcat strike.

From Slate • Oct. 28, 2019

Mr. Watson managed the chamber of commerce in Daingerfield, Tex., before becoming an executive with Lone Star Steel, a company that fired workers during a wildcat strike in 1957.

From Washington Post • Nov. 28, 2017

Pooky Suggs, who hadn’t been to church in twenty years, said this preacher had it right and gathered a group of men around him to announce a wildcat strike.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam